Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-27 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Just to mention the follow-up: I used kmail and its convert program on the old dbx files, and it worked fine. But the results were in maildir format (each message in a separate file), not in mbox format (a whole lot of messages in one file, which apparently Thunderbird/Icedove are used to). But som

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mark Grieveson wrote: [..] > If the idea of running a dos program on Linux nauseates you, > then I also read that Kmail, with the kmailcvt (kmail > converter) package installed also works. Actuallly I am quite a fan of dosemu (and even of DOS), but DOS can't handle filenames longer than 8+3, let

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:50:29 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of > old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, > out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the > messages inside the .dbx files are most

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jan Willem Stumpel: > > After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of > old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, > out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the > messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched > the web for "conv

Re: Mailbox conversion

2008-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/25/08 14:38, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Finally the motherboard of my wife's computer broke down, so I had > to replace it. I could not just get a new motherboard, because > they do not sell boards with "462" sockets anymore. The cheapest > solu